Peck t whitmore (9 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Ex-library no dustjacket. Heavy wear to cover and book edges. Library stamps and stickers are present.

8vo(22.8x14) HB 1st Edition viii+239pp+52 b/w plates ilus. Cream cloth with foxglove illus to front & green lettering-v.good+. Unclipped illus DJ with some edge & spine wear (neatly repaired) -stil good. Inscr to ffep & some discolouring of endpapers else internally v.good/near fine. (650g).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 239 Pp. Tan Cloth Lettered In Green, With Mounted Illustration On Front Cover. First Printing. Near Fine, Owner's Name And His Medical Name Stamp. Dust Jacket With Small Edge Tears And Small Edge Chips. Map Endpapers; Plates (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1950 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges, in a good wrapper, corners and edges rubbed with a little loss to some corners, small closed tears, small piece missing top edge of front cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Contents bright and clean. No inscription. 239 pages with index. Appendix. Illustrations. Bibliography.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS, OCTAVO, HARDCOVER, INSET COVER COLOR ILLUSTRATION OF FOXGLOVE, 1950, PP.239, The Life Of The Man Who Discovered The Uses Of Digitalis VERY GOOD, FIRST FEP HAS CORNER CLIPPED. B & W Plates (illustratore).

First American edition. 8vo. viii, 239 pp. Frontis., 52 plates, index. Green cloth. A FINE COPY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. DJ has minor edgewear; boards & pages are in great condition. Includes a letter from the author's son (Wilkinson).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. A little worn and frayed. First Edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp (6), 239, fore-edge a little foxed, endpapers foxed, otherwise very good internally, original cloth with pictorial inlay on upper cover, spine head very slightly bruised, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly worn and chipped dustwrapper. From the library of William Stearn, with his signature on the front endpaper. [William Withering was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis. The story is that he noticed a person with dropsy (swelling from congestive heart failure) improve remarkably after taking a traditional herbal remedy; Withering became famous for recognising that the active ingredient in the mixture came from the foxglove plant.…

First English edition. 8vo. viii, 239 pp. 52 plates, index. Cloth, gilt spine. FINE.